PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
XI. Some curious facts respecting the Walrus and Seal, discovered 
by the examination of specimens brought to 'England by the 
different ships lately returned from the Polar Circle. By Sir 
Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S. In a Letter addressed to 
Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. Pres . R. S. 
Read March 4, 1824. 
Dear Sir, 
As the late expeditions sent out by Government to make 
discoveries in the Polar regions, were originally planned and 
recommended by the President and Council of the Royal 
Society, I am desirous to communicate to the Society, through 
you, some discoveries that have been made in the line of 
Comparative Anatomy, from an examination of the specimens 
that were brought home. This I wish to do before the dif- 
ferent expeditions which are to sail in the ensuing spring 
shall leave our coasts, that the officers employed, knowing 
that, independent of the great objects of their voyage, 
many branches of science have been already much en- 
lightened by their means, they will be induced, when- 
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